Echelon is a game server and player monitor applet for the GNOME Desktop Environment. It's goal is to provide easy and fast access to important server information such as the number of players online, the current map, your current ping, and a list of players currently on the server including thier pings and scores.

You can also maintain a list of 'friends' inside the application. The applet icon changes colours according to the state of your favorite servers. Blue means that there are currently players on one or more servers (applet tooltip tells which ones), and green means one or more of your friends are on servers. Friends names can be either an exact match, or a subset of the name. This is useful for notification for a group of friends such as clan members.

The Qstat utility is used to gather the information from remote servers, and therefore, Echelon has the ability to support any game qstat does. At the moment, however, we only support a subset of these. Games supported by Echelon include but are not limited to QuakeI, QuakeII, QuakeIII, DoomIII, Halflife, Enemy Territory, Unreal, and Unreal Tournament.

Echelon is written by Dennis Craven and Jason Gorski in the Python programming language and depends on Python, PyGTK, gnome-python, gnome-python-extras, and qstat.